I did a lot of tests, and I finalized my research. Paper has become a part of my visual vocabulary. You know, paper is an industrial material. You can do almost anything with it. Wood, for example, is much more difficult to adapt to different needs.

I believe that the material doesn’t need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with the strength of the material.

I travel a lot. Japanese culture is very ancient and very strong. That's why most people who commission work from Japanese architects expect them to create works that have an element of exoticism, the kind typical of Japanese culture. I don't do that.

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.

An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.